Anti-immigrant groups NC Listen and NC FIRE were in attendance at a hearing of the newly formed NC House Immigration Committee today in Raleigh. NC Listen are listed by the anti-immigrant group FAIR as a state contact. Also in attendance at the committee hearing was Sheriff Sam Page. Page recently collaborated with anti-immigrant groups FAIR and Center for Immigration Studies (CIS).
It’s that time of year again! With 2012 fast approaching we take a look back at the year that was, and list our five nominees vying for the honor of “Anti-Immigrant Grinch of the Year.” Trying to whittle down them to only five was tough, but after many hours of deliberation, we landed on the following five. In two weeks we will be announcing the winner, so stay tuned. Without further adieu, we give you the nominees!
The recent outbreaks of food born illnesses like listeria and salmonella only serve to reinforce that we are all eating from a poisoned food system. This episode of Imagine2050′s audio blog traces our current industrialized system of food production back to the 70′s when the Nixon administration changed the Farm Bills to subsidize commodity crops like corn. We’ll listen to excerpts of interviews with the Nixon Administration’s Secretary of Agriculture, Earl Butz, and food activist and author Michael Pollan, among others.
Jessica Acee: Food Safety Audiolog by Imagine2050
David North is due to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on December 7th. North is a fellow at the anti-immigrant group Center for Immigration Studies (CIS). In a September 2010 blog, North blamed undocumented immigrants for the historic high rates of teenage obesity in the United States.
With a litany of negative circumstances impacting people in this country, Occupy Wall Street (OWS) has become both a beacon of hope and a catalyst for change, as so many are feeling that their voices and actions can actually make a difference.
And so OWS continues to provide a backdrop for acts of resistance, fueling a fresh climate for social justice movement building.
The infectious momentum of OWS and it’s “now is the time” organizing energy is also being exemplified by the ongoing organizing efforts of the Food Chain Workers Alliance (FCWA) and the hundreds of thousands of workers in the food industry in this country. FCWA, with its twelve member organizations, represents… Read more
Originally posted by Business Week on December 2nd.
Organizers of the Occupy OKC movement filed a lawsuit Thursday in federal court seeking to prohibit Oklahoma City officials from forcing them to move out of a downtown park each night.
Five members of the group are asking a district judge to issue a temporary injunction that would prevent the city from enforcing an overnight curfew.
“We think it is very dangerous in this day and age to begin to allow restrictions on the right to peacefully assemble and our rights to free speech,” said Mark Faulk, one of the Occupy OKC organizers and a plaintiff in the suit. “Our rights do not cease between… Read more
In 2008, crowds of frantic Black Friday shoppers trampled 34 year-old Wal-Mart employee Jdimytai Damour to his death as he and other workers tried to unlock the door at 5:00 A.M. It went unnoticed by most of those involved in the stampede as they clamored to get their deals.
Black Friday 2011 came and went with no deaths on record; however, there was still an abundance of ugly incidents reported by authorities. International corporate conglomerate Wal-Mart can lay claim to some of the worst, two of which were shootings—one in California, another in South Carolina. In Little Rock, Arkansas, a $2 waffle iron caused a riot of mindless violence. Los Angeles saw… Read more
The Social Contract, a white nationalist quarterly journal, released its Fall issue last month. Entitled “America Transformed,” it marks twenty-five years since the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), popularly derided by anti-immigrant stalwarts as the most egregious law ever passed (the IRCA permitted undocumented immigrants to stay within the United States legally after meeting certain prerequisites).
Claiming that history is about to repeat itself through Obama’s “administrative amnesty,” the authors run the prosaic gamut of various anti-immigrant arguments, concluding that, after a quarter-century, not much is different. But it‘s probably more relevant to look at this publication’s history in order to determine what has and has changed.
The Social Contract was established by… Read more